Definitions for gluey

gluey glue·y

Spelling: [gloo-ee]
IPA: /ˈglu i/

Gluey is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in gluey (egluy).

Definitions for gluey

adjective

  1. like glue; viscid; sticky.
  2. full of or smeared with glue.

Origin of gluey

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at glue, -y1

Examples for gluey

Sudden, thunderous outpourings of acidulous and gluey fluid.

His skin was cold and clammy; a gluey moisture rested on his cheek; and his teeth were dark and discolored.

The road was not miry, but gluey, and reluctant, and wearisome to the tread.

They had eaten all the cookies but one, which got wet and dissolved in a gluey paste.

Sicilian is gluey and evasive, as if the Sicilian didn't want to speak straight to you.

Others place it in the middle of a soft and gluey substance, to which they carefully stick many feathers.

Instead of grasping the tin, my fingers closed on a sticky, gluey mass.

Birds eat their berries, which are coated in gluey material called viscin.

The nails were discolored, knobby, easily bleeding and covered with a gluey eruption.

He drew off nine quarts of gluey, viscid fluid, and her pain was wholly relieved.

Word Value for gluey
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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